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Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST): Today's Featured Real Estate Winner

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Host Hotels & Resorts (
HST) pushed the Real Estate industry higher today making it today's featured real estate winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, Host Hotels & Resorts rose 28 cents (1.7%) to $17.18 on average volume. Throughout the day, 9.4 million shares of Host Hotels & Resorts exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.2 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $16.88-$17.25 after having opened the day at $16.91 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $16.90. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that increased today were:
Altisource Residential Corporation (
RESI), up 20%,
New England Realty Associates (
NEN), up 7.3%,
Elbit Imaging (
EMITF), up 5.8%, and
Institutional Financial Markets (
IFMI), up 5.7%.

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Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust (REIT). The firm primarily engages in the ownership and operation of hotel properties. It invests in the real estate markets of United States. Host Hotels & Resorts has a market cap of $12.18 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 560.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 7.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Host Hotels & Resorts a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Host Hotels & Resorts as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, poor profit margins and weak operating cash flow.